Couples Intensives
Marriage Counseling Weekends in Moscow, IdahoA weekend that can change your relationship for good.
Two focused, breakthrough days to reconnect and leave with change that actually lasts.
You Get An Accelerated Approach To:
- Deeper Understanding Between You
- Practical Strategies for Change
- Emotional and Physical Connection
- Revitalized Communication
- Confidence for Conflict Resolution
You need hope now, with a plan that works.
Many couples who come to me have tried weekly marriage counseling or weekend group programs that just didn’t work.
Instead of months of sessions crammed into your schedule, you and your partner dedicate two powerful days to working deeply on your relationship with a highly skilled therapist.
Intensives produce results that are fast, effective, and lasting.
Why Choose a Couples Therapy Intensive?
Tailored for You: No cookie-cutter group lectures. Every moment is designed for your relationship. Couples often tell me it’s a relief when I make sense of why it’s not working when they’ve tried so hard.
The Luxury of Time: Intensives create habits that last. You’ll slow down, repeat what works, and experience new ways to connect. You’ll work through your specific challenges with expert coaching. This is known as deep practice, and it builds new neural pathways.
Clarity from the Start: Before you arrive, I’ll study your history and design a personalized plan, so you can walk in feeling confident. I’m skilled at making sense of your history to create a logical approach that won’t overwhelm you.
Experiential and Immersive: You won’t be watching the clock under pressure. Intensives work with how your neural circuitry changes. Ample time and targeted coaching help you practice who you want to be: brave, clear, calm, honest, loving.
Interruption Free: Weekly counseling can be a grind. You rush in from work or your kid’s practice and you’re supposed to change gears and have hard conversations you’ve been struggling with for years. Then…”time’s up!” A counseling intensive helps you make time for what matters.
Post-Intensive Support: You’ll each leave with your own copy of the very materials you’ve used all weekend. Think of it as a playbook to see you through those first few weeks before our scheduled follow-up. Return to it any time to keep your new skills sharp.
who benefits from a couples intensive?
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Couples stuck in cycles of conflict or disconnection
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Partners navigating betrayal, affairs, or broken trust
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Couples who want to deepen intimacy and strengthen their bond
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Busy professionals who prefer focused work over ongoing weekly sessions
Is a Counseling Intensive Right for You?
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- If you are both committed to building the relationship you want and are each prepared to work on your part.
- If you’d like to get off the hamster wheel and let an expert guide you into change you know you need.
- If you’re both going a million miles an hour and scheduling is a nightmare.
- If you’re both willing to work for what you want, if you only knew what would work.
A counseling intensive could be right for you.
When Should You Go a Different Route?
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- If there is an unacknowledged or untreated ongoing addiction.
- If there is an undisclosed active, affair.
- If there are safety concerns such as domestic violence.
- If there is an undiagnosed or untreated serious mental illness.
- If one of you is leaning out, uncommitted to the relationship, or unwilling to examine personal change.
Other forms of counseling support will serve you better.
Expert Coaching + Deep Practice + Neuroscience = Change
Get experiential change together that you will take into the rest of your lives. A strategically timed follow-up session, plus a playbook of materials, provides the coaching you need to make change stick.
Marriage intensives can:
- Address old hurts and unresolved issues
- Help you look honestly at yourself to become less defensive
- Foster curiosity and break cycles of blame
- Make managing differences more productive
- Challenge each partner for deeper growth and development
You will:
- Break free from old hurts that were never addressed
- Gain confidence to handle life as a team
- Understand the right tools for navigating differences
- Revitalize your foundation as best friends and lovers
- Grow as an individual to support your whole life
designed with Options To Fit Your Needs
The Immersive 2-Day Intensive Weekend
The full weekend. Designed to let you to step away from the world and focus on the relationship you want.
This experience includes an initial consultation, pre-weekend preparation, two full days I design to focus on your needs, take-home materials to see you through, and a scheduled follow-up a few weeks later.
Altogether, you get 15 and a half hours of therapy, not including the consultation or preparation. You’ll receive in one weekend what you’d get in roughly 4 months of weekly sessions.
The luxury of time with targeted coaching works so beautifully with how your brain creates change, your intensive can accomplish what would take much longer to achieve with weekly counseling.
Many couples make a 4-day getaway of it, including local couples who choose to arrange childcare and book a room so they can focus fully on their immersive weekend. Highly recommend!
$3895.00
The Custom 1-Day Intensive: Stand Alone or Series
A tailored day dedicated to your relationship. The 1-day couples intensive I will design for you includes:
Initial consultation, pre-intensive preparation, and 5, 6, or 7 hours of counseling, with lunch (on your own) and breaks, of course!
Equivalent to 4-6 weeks of therapy, this option can work very well for a variety of couples and circumstances:
- Stable couples who need a tune-up to get back on track without the headache of scheduling weekly sessions.
- Couples who need to budget carefully can book two 1-day intensives 4-6 weeks apart with homework in between and follow-up later.
- Solid couples who need focused support to make headway on one topic in an otherwise great marriage.
- Couples who prefer weekly therapy but want to see progress fast.
- Premarital couples who want to jumpstart their learning.
$1000.00-1400.00
Meet liz, Your Guide to Accelerated Couples Counseling
I am a relationship counseling expert with years of experience helping distressed couples find their way back to the life together they’d hoped for.
I have personally studied under both Lori Weisman, MA, LMHC and Ellyn Bader, PhD. Lori and Ellyn are internationally recognized couples experts. They were most recently featured in the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on the results of intensive couples therapy built on the Developmental Model that Ellyn and her husband, Pete Pearson, PhD, pioneered together. I have fallen in love with the results couples are seeing as we work with the principles of both healthy adult attachment/bonding and the personal growth possible in each person with healthy differentiation.
As a graduate of the Couples Institute, the Developmental Model will be the cornerstone I use to build your custom intensive. However, I have years of training and experience in research-proven methods of couples therapy, including The Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), and more. I bring all my training and experience to your intensive.
I have studied the neurobiology of performance change and inner motivational shifts that last. With intensive training through The Coaches Training Institute, Centerpoint’s Program for Life and Career Renewal, and more, I have coached individuals to achieve career goals as entrepreneurs and within organizations. I have helped organizations develop cohesion after rapid change. I can help you create cohesion, too.
Both before and alongside my work as a licensed therapist, I’ve spent years training and serving as a life, career, and performance coach. I’ve studied how adults truly learn, grow, and change: in life, work, and sport. It is my joy to bring this experience to our couples work.
I bring more than 20 years of experience in the endeavor of change to every couple I work with.
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If you know these are the changes you need, and you’re ready to roll up your sleeves to create the relationship you want, I’d love to talk with you. Click below to learn more and take the first step.